That is why the true luck of the house or the casino itself is not an individual bet. But all of the bets cumulatively, with all the sample size of bets. Over the series of wins and losses over the gambler, the casino always wins. The casino always have the advantage, but still the gambler can outsmart this by knowing when to stop and not to take risk. By being content of their wins and not give it back to the casino. You may not beat the casino, but you may earn money and not lose it.
You can’t consider it as outsmarting because you can’t break the inevitable loss in the long run by just knowing when to stop because you didn’t have profit at all. You can consider it as safety measure or minimizing risk but not an outsmarting move because casino always knew that gamblers will never know how to stop on most cases.
The only to outsmart casino is involving on bets that gives +EV like arbitrage betting or other strategy that will give guarantee positive profit which casino doesn’t allowed.
Also note that if the house edge is 2% vs 1% then means you have a variation in terms of what you achieve while at the casinos.